The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 29

This was, you must know, the very fairy who appeared to her sister, but now had taken the air and dress of a princess, to see how far this girl’s rudeness would go.

Who acts: This, you, fairy, rudeness · What happens: be, know, appear, take, see, go · To what, where: fairy, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, you, fairy, rudeness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fairy	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairy	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 fairy	advmod
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fairy	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sister	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 taken	cc
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 taken	advmod
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 know	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dress	cc
24	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 air	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 princess	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 princess	det
27	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dress	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	parataxis
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 far	advmod
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 go	advmod
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 girl	det
34	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rudeness	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 girl	case
36	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	This				tree rules
2	know	must	you	the fairy			tree rules
3	appear	past	the fairy			to mother's sister	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past · perfect		the air and dress of a princess	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go	would	this girl's rudeness			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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